Patience is a virtue

On Sunday we celebrated the adoption at our local kiddle park. After we all had our way with the bagels, I noticed the lil’ monkey had drifted away. This is where I found her. Staring at the swing, trusting, trusting, that someone would come and do right by her. No telling how many minutes she was staring a hole into the side of it. I love this girlie.

Later note: extending the adoption-fest theme here, check out Mombian’s post yesterday providing a synopsis of, commentary on, and links to a new national study, published in the American Sociological Review, which finds that — surprise — “Adoptive parents invest more time and financial resources in their children than biological parents.”

The presumption that family ties made between people without blood ties are less â€œperfectâ€ than blood ties goes very much against the grain of queer family values in which non-biological ties are often as important or even more important than biological ones.